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The structure of chapter 10, Becoming and its interpretation.

becoming-2007-format.pdf

Our way of thinking and understanding the world has been deeply modified through the use of digital tools in every field of nowadays life. They improve creation and design processes as well as production and fabrication ones. Nowadays we can enjoy multiple softwares that provide us with new options while we are creating, as well as CAD_CAM_RP facilities that make really easy the mass customization production process to happen. So far, they mean not only a way to represent the world but to generate it. Re-producing models in a computer and obtaining different results with an immediate feedback broadly multiplies possibilities for designing structures, spaces, objects, building, thoughts…Refusing these digital advantages is like keep on drawing only in two dimensions if you have the possibility to use perspective. The fact that perspective rules were discovered meant the capability for us to “represent” a third dimension that could not be drawn before. Likewise, now we have the chance to generate and produce our world through digital processes increasing the complexity and establishing new relationships between different fields and disciplines.

The meaning of the word tool is crucial to understand that we cannot get lost during the generation process in a way that the only aim became to produce shape with no content. It is quite easy to get fascinated by the potential of the digital world but shit in perspective is still a shit. Since we are living in the twenty first century we have the compromise to know how digital tools work and use them to produce and generate, but we must always have to be alert and keep our critic capability to face the world in which we live.

Here you can find the essay: in.pdf

Link to the essay

Link to the presentation for John Hollands book “Emergence from chaos to order” here

below you can link to the pdf file of the essay on digital culture, based on the articles published in Neil Leach’s book ”Designing for a Digital World”.

here is the link to the first and to the second part of the essay.

below you can find the link to the presentation about contemporary digital culture, based on the essays published at Neil Leach’s book “Designing for a Digital World”.

dfdw_vaya.pdf

The paper that Ben and I have written as a part of the Neil Leach seminar, Architectural Theory, is complete.

You can download a copy of it here

“Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. it’s what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component parts - often there are thousands or millions of them - and they interact in relatively simple ways. And yet somehow out of all this interaction some higher level structure or intelligence appears, usually without any master planner calling the shots. These kinds of systems tend to evolve from the ground up.”

Steven Johnson, Interview by David Sims and Real Dornfest on Emergence, 22nd February 2002

You can find the final essay on Emergence here:

emergencestevenjohnson_mariapapaloizou.pdf

Steven Johnson : Emergence

Here is the presentation:  emergence_marianazli.pdf

 Muezzin calling for prayer

 to see the presentation click here: dg_chapter-11_verena-vogler.pdf

A link to our presentation on the above article can be found here: